On March 8, 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

On 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, mapping the planet’s gravity and magnetic fields with extraordinary precision. Instead of finding a dense solid core or no core at all, the ...

MIAMI — NASA celebrated a key triumph on Tuesday as its $1.1 billion Juno spacecraft successfully slipped into orbit around Jupiter on a mission to probe the origin of the solar system. NASA’s Jet ...

Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, is not as big as we thought. For more than half-a-century, astronomers thought they had a good idea of the gas giant's shape and size. Now, a fresh ...

NASA scientists spotted a weird green flash on Jupiter — a bright, unexpected burst of green light that shouldn’t be there according to everything we know about the giant planet’s atmosphere. This ...

WASHINGTON -- Scientists said they have found evidence of water in the atmosphere of Jupiter's icy moon "Europa." NASA said its Hubble space telescope observed the presence of persistent water vapor ...

Images captured in 2023 by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope of the massive aurora lights on Jupiter reveal unexpected activity in the gas giant's atmosphere. (Video: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) ...